Lyle Nordstrom, Professor of Music

Lyle Nordstrom is currently the director of early music activities (Collegium) at the University of North Texas.  He was formerly the music department head at Clayton College and State University in Morrow, Georgia and head of the Early Music program there.  He was recently honored by Early Music America with the Thomas Binkley award for outstanding achievements in the early music ensembles at the collegiate level.  His professional work has also received international attention.  He is founder and co-director of "The Musicians of Swanne Alley," the well-known Elizabethan music ensemble with whom he has recorded on the Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi and Focus labels.  With that ensemble and others he has performed several times at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Utrecht Early Music festival, the Bath Festival, several times on St. Paul Sunday, as well as German, Danish, French and English radio and television.  His arrangements of music for Swanne Alley were used in the MGM movie, "Rob Roy."  Dr. Nordstrom is also founder and artistic director of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra that performs thoughout the Southeast.  Beyond his performances and recordings, he has published several articles on lute-related subject, and written a book on the 16th-century wire-strung Bandora.  He is currently editor of the Lute Society of America Scholarly editions project.  In addition, he has taught lute at he Indiana University Early Music Institute and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and is past president of the Atlanta Early Music Alliance.

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